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The less said, on this platform (because most of us don’t need reminding) about #PaulineHanson the better. Unless of course it is in the course of throwing some more ridicule on the ridiculest: towit #AnnabelCrabb — who suddenly begins to be awake to it —and her critique of #PHON call to #monoculture:

“Pauline Hanson herself, meanwhile, popped back into the chat regularly over the week to offer helpful definitional prompts including that Japan is a monoculture.

Now, this in itself should have been a clue that it was well past time for everybody to go home for a lie down.

Because if there's anything more hallucination-inducing than the woman who 30 years ago had her undies in a bunch about too many Asians suddenly fancying we should be a bit more like Japan, I don't care to imagine it.

And yet. And yet. Unbelievably, there were still players willing to trudge out and engage, seriously, with the question of whether we should be Japan.”

Thanks for the merriment Annabel, may all your future pieces and vids carry the same clarity of political nous. And for all those polies still wondering what monoculture is, I’ll give you all a clue… it’s about #Cults … sit with that for a while.

#AusPol #Nationalism #Fascism #Racism #TaxTheRich #TruthInPoliticalAdvertising

Hanson spawned the silliest semantic beard-stroking in 20 years

We've come a long way since it was Pauline Hanson who didn't know the meaning of big words.

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RaymondPierreL3 13h ago

As all journalists/essayists worth their salt ought to do, Annable did her reseach. Gosh, she even read #Pauline’s memoir for Dog’s sake… now that’s worth a medal or two surely… I’ll admint I don’t have to stomach to go through that ordeal.

#AusPol #PHON

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Phil Scoie 13h ago

@RaymondPierreL3 And maybe a bex with theirl laydown 🤣🤣

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Bot4Sale 13h ago

@RaymondPierreL3 "Because if there's anything more hallucination-inducing than the woman who 30 years ago had her undies in a bunch about too many Asians suddenly fancying we should be a bit more like Japan, I don't care to imagine it."
This is a very good pick up and perhaps a great example of how to out-Hanson a Hanson supporter..

"So you want us to be a monoculture by becoming Japanese?" - would love to see the look on a Hanson supporter face when that realisation hits them.

#auspol

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RaymondPierreL3 13h ago

@Bot4Sale
To be frank, I think #PHON operatives and their supporters are too bigotted to pay any atttention to their self-contradictory utterrings. Once a #Fascist, always a facsist.

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Bot4Sale 12h ago

@RaymondPierreL3 Agreed, but could be a good conversation stopper if you ever need to quickly shut up a Hanson supporter ie. "Pooorleeen wants us to become Asian WTF??" 😄 [Drop bomb and walk away]

#auspol

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RaymondPierreL3 11h ago

@Bot4Sale
I’m not sure I’d even bother. Whenever I get a wiff of #PHONism from anyone, I tend to cut the conversation short and walk away — there’s no convincing a biggot they’re a biggot.

Rather, I rather punch holes in their comments (before disengaging), like, Japan is not a monoculture. Ainu people in Hokkaido, Ryukyuans on Okinawa, and the many Korean everywhere in Japan. Japan also has a sizeable immigration intake and while not truly a multicultural society, it has its pockets of many other cultures. So much for #monoculture. #Pauline ought to have been truthful and call it post-colonial popular nationalism and white supremacy racism, because that is what #PHON espouses.

#AusPol

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Bot4Sale 10h ago

@RaymondPierreL3 Agreed that walking away from a One Neuron supporter is the best course of action (wherever possible).

I do like to have some one-liners ready in case I can't exit quickly enough however.

Interesting info there about Japan.

#auspol

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RaymondPierreL3 6h ago

@Bot4Sale
I can’t think of one liners. My immediate response to one neurons is to question the logic of their utterence which would cause them to take the conversation off on a tangent using #WhatAboutisms, they are good at that. So I try very hard to just listen to what they say without reacting at all or, as I said, just walk away.

#AusPol